"Mom! Rin isn't helping me at all!" Tuyen complained. "He's being dumb, like always, and he's just sit-sleeping in that same old corner, like always!"
Rin opened his eyes and turned around swiftly. "I told you, it's not 'sit-sleeping,' it's called meditating! Say it with me now, me-di-ta-ting." Tuyen gave him a blank expression.
"Oh, but I don't care. Could you just please let me practice my earth bending on you?!" she exclaimed restlessly. Their mom came through to settle them down.
"C'mon Tuyen, be a little nicer. Let him meditate now."
"Ugh!" Tuyen threw her hands in the air and stomped away. "Grandpa Meelo!" she yelled. She looked around the small, one-story house for a few minutes then realized that he was standing out in the front talking to a few other people dressed in the White Lotus uniforms. She ran outside, disregarding the Order of the White Lotus. "Grandpa Meelo! Rin's being a jerk," she emphasized the word 'jerk,' "and won't work with me! Can I practice my earth bending on you? I learned some new tricks!"
Meelo chuckled at his granddaughter and knelt down to her height. "Y'know, Tuyen, you were named after your grandmother? When she was about your age- that's when I first met her- she was much... quieter. You might want to be a little more like her."
Tuyen rolled her eyes. "Mom told me about what Great-Grandfather Tenzin told her too! She said that he said that YOU were much more hyper and active as I was, so now YOU have to deal with YOUR genes! And by the way, Grandama Tuyen was 14 when you met her. I'm 16, Grandpa."
Once Tuyen said that, all the members of the White Lotus were taken back. They whispered to each other for a minute as Tuyen watched in confusion.
"So we CAN tell her!" one of them said, loud enough that everyone could hear.
"Tell me what?"
The other White Lotus members shook their heads, but the one standing in front recovered. "Tuyen, you have a twin brother named Rin, right?"
She stepped back in shock because she was scared that they knew that. She raised an eyebrow as she replied, "Yeah, why?"
"Go get him, Tuyen." Meelo ordered. She ran inside to retrieve her brother, and the two of them returned in a moment.
The White Lotus member in front cleared his throat, and the other members immediately straightened up. He announced with a strong, deep voice, "Do you two remember picking out these toys when you were younger?" The air bending White Lotus member bent a rolled up cloth in front of everyone, and un-rolled it on the floor. It revealed four vintage looking toys.
Tuyen put her hand on her hip and leaned to the left. "Yeah, what about it?"
"I see..." Rin said, after unnecessary thorough inspection of the toys, "Yes, I do remember these toys. We both wanted them, but Mom and Dad told us we had to share."
"Do either of you remember why you wanted these toys?"
"Uh, they looked fun?" Tuyen replied with a sarcastic tone.
"You chose them because they looked familiar. We have a never-before-seen case regarding the next avatar, so we will be taking you two to Republic City.
"What do we have to do with the next avatar? Rin's not a bender, and I can only bend earth."
"That's the special case, you see... How do I explain this? It's not that you're both the avatar, it's that-," The White Lotus member was cut off.
"We're both the avatar?!" Rin and Tuyen said in unison.
"No, I meant-,"
"Woohoo!" Tuyen exclaimed. She popped up some pieces of earth from beneath her and shot them up into the air, making a smoke screen. "Introducing..." she exclaimed from behind all the smoke, with a generic announcer voice, "The next avatars: Tuyen and Rin!" and she got rid of all the smoke in an instant, revealing Tuyen posing and Rin standing next to her coughing from all the smoke.
Their mother stomped outside to meet them. "What is all this commotion?!" She marched closer to them, and realized the White Lotus Members. "Oh! I-It's an honor to have the Order of the White Lotus at our humble household!" She said nervously.
"We were just telling your kids that they, together and together only, are the next avatar."
"What? I'm sorry, but how can they be the avatar? I'd like to know who your sources are." Their mom said.
"Our sources wish to be kept anonymous, and we wish to keep it that way. We will need to take your children to Republic City. They will be completely safe over there."
Her eyes widened. "C-Can I go with them? They're only 16, and-,"
"C'mon Mom, we'll be fine!" Tuyen popped up in front of her. "We're the avatar! I'm not sure what that means, but the White Lotus just said it! You know what the past avatars did, don't you? Roku was taken from the fire nation all over the world! Aang traveled on his flying bison! Korra- I don't even know where to start with Korra!"
"It's okay, Mom, I'll keep Tuyen in check." Rin said behind her.
"Very well. Pack your things, kids, you've got a long journey ahead of you."
"Actually, you won't need any worldly possessions. We should get going as soon as possible."
"Awesome! Let's go! How're we getting there? Airship? Sato-Mobile? Let's go let's go let's go!" Tuyen shouted, as she jumped around.
"Tuyen, Rin, come here." The two of them obeyed their mother. "Take care of each other out there, got it? They haven't waited 'till the avatar was 16 since avatar Roku! Send me a message once you get there, okay?"
"Okay, Mom! We got it," Tuyen replied carelessly.
"Don't worry, Mom, I got it." Rin followed.
The two of them got into the Sato-Mobile and waved through the window.
